This month, we are focusing on one of the聽Five Ways to Wellbeing: Take Notice 鈥撀燼lso known as Be Mindful.
Mindfulness is a skill, and like all skills, it becomes easier with practice. If you have never tried mindfulness before, it may be helpful for you to start small and practice for a few minutes and gradually increase this time. Alternatively, you could begin with one mindful activity and slowly try other activity types.
Examples of activities that you can make mindful:
- Eating 鈥� acknowledge all the textures, tastes and smells as you eat
- Yoga 鈥� focus on the sensations in your body as you move
- Breathing 鈥� focus on your breath with an exercise like聽
- Colouring聽鈥� keep your attention on the聽colours聽on the page, without judging whether the聽colouring聽is good or bad
- Meditation – observe your thoughts as they come to your mind, but try not to get caught up in them
Ways you can find out more about mindfulness:
- Enabling Services鈥櫬�鈥淎 check in with our busy minds鈥� session聽鈥� as well as general wellbeing tips, we鈥檒l be looking at easy ways to be mindful every day.
- Sport & Wellbeing鈥檚聽聽鈥� Be Active aims to support you physically and mentally. Join their meditation session on University Mental Health Day!
- Action for Happiness鈥櫬犅爓ebinar 鈥� this includes simple techniques for how we can make mindfulness a natural part of our lives.
- Apps like聽听补苍诲听聽allow you to practice mindfulness in your own time.
Read our last SUSSED post on mindfulness聽here.
